Femicide Suspect’s Death in Modena Prison Sparks Investigation into Possible Incitement to Suicide

Modena: The Modena prosecutor’s office is investigating with the hypothesis of the crime of incitement to suicide in relation to the death of an inmate in Modena, accused of femicide, judicial sources said Sunday.

According to Ansa News Agency, the case concerns the death of the engineer Andrea Paltrinieri, 50, from Mirandola, found lifeless about ten days ago in the cell of the Sant’Anna prison where he was spending his detention following the murder of his ex-wife, the 41-year-old Belarusian Anna Sviridenko, which occurred in June last year.

At the moment the file has been opened against person or persons unknown.

Paltrinieri, sources said, was the victim of beatings in the summer by other inmates, as well as insults and threats because of his alleged crime.

The opening of the probe, reported by the Modena edition of Il Resto del Carlino newspaper, will also serve to understand if there were any warning signs, and, if so, if they were underestimated, of the man’s potential intentions.

Paltrinieri strangled Sviridenko, a specialist in Radiology at the Policlinico of Modena, on the evening of June 10, 2024, a few hours before a court hearing in Innsbruck (Austria) during which the custody of the couple’s two young children was set to be discussed.

This, as it later emerged, was one of the elements of tension between the two.

It was Paltrinieri himself who turned himself in to the Modena Carabinieri, telling the soldiers that the woman’s body was in the van he had parked in front of the barracks.

Since then he had been detained in the Modena prison.

The trial had not yet begun.